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πόλισμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πόλισμα πόλισματος

Structure: πολισματ (Stem)

Etym.: poli/zw

Sense

  1. a city, town
  2. the community

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὦ γῆσ ἁπάσησ Ἀσιάδοσ πολίσματα, ὦ Περσὶσ αἰᾶ καὶ πολὺσ πλούτου λιμήν, ὡσ ἐν μιᾷ πληγῇ κατέφθαρται πολὺσ ὄλβοσ, τὸ Περσῶν δ’ ἄνθοσ οἴχεται πεσόν. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, trochees 2:1)
  • ἔξω γὰρ Κρότωνοσ τῆσ ἐν Ὀμβρικοῖσ πόλεωσ ἀξιολόγου, καὶ εἰ δή τι ἄλλο ἐν τῇ Ἀβοριγίνων οἰκισθὲν ἐτύγχανε, τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν Πελασγῶν διεφθάρη πολίσματα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 26 2:2)
  • αὐτὸν μὲν δὴ τήν τε Ἄλβαν κτίσαι καὶ ἄλλ’ ἄττα πολίσματα· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 73 4:2)
  • ἡ δ’ ἧττον ἐκείνησ χρησίμη τὰ οἰκεῖα πολίσματα ὑπελείφθη φυλάττειν, μή τισ ἔφοδοσ αἰφνίδιοσ πολεμίων ἐπ’ αὐτὰ γένηται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 69 5:1)
  • ἔπειτα εἰσβαλὼν εἰσ Λυκίαν Τελμισσέασ μὲν ὁμολογίᾳ προσηγάγετο, περάσασ δὲ τὸν Ξάνθον ποταμὸν Πίναρα καὶ Ξάνθον τὴν πόλιν καὶ Πάταρα ἐνδοθέντα ἔλαβε καὶ ἄλλα ἐλάττω πολίσματα ἐσ τριάκοντα. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 24 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. a city

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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